Red and Green
Anyone tired of this red cabin wall yet? I’m not, quite. As some of you will remember, it is in Port Renfrew where I spent a pleasant weekend in early February.
Previous views of this wall can be seen here, and here. For me the decorative row (column?) of cobbles makes the shot work. Followed quite closely by the roof rafter ends down the left join.
Gate Montage
Another couple of examples of making the most of a roll of film from the Olympus Pen which was not advancing properly. The camera was, unknown to me, only advancing the film about 1/6th of a frame each time I cocked the shutter. These two shots are of the same subject, I was interested in the shadows of trees on the walls surround a gate to a parking garage. For the top one I was taking adjacent diptychs trying to get an interesting pair, and then turned around and took a shot down the road (Meares Street). The second image is the same location except I was taking fliptychs, both horizontally and vertically oriented, which is what made the squares.
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Finlayson Point Half-frame
These three half-frame shot from the Olympus Pen are taken at the same place on Finlayson Point. The diptych and fliptych below are taken while sitting on the bench to the left in the shot above. They illustrate nicely three of the main methods I have been using. At the top is a panorama (not very well executed but kind of nice anyway), middle is the same scene transformed by moving subjects and at the bottom is an abstraction from rotating the camera between shots.
I have not loaded film into the Pen up recently as I want to fix a light leak – I think the new felt seal I put in is not doing the job, but I am not totally sure if it is that part of the camera that needs attention, so diagnosis is underway but stalled by other commitments.
Finlayson Point is within Beacon Hill Park on the waterfront. It has a long military history being used probably a thousand years ago as a fortress by the First Nations. The fort was of the trench embankment style with steep drops on three sides of the point and a trench (or two) cut through the isthmus of the peninsula, the spoil creating an bank on which a stockade was built.
In the 20th century this spot served as a gun battery in defence of Canada’s west coast naval base in nearby Esquimalt. Now it is a park, and dog walking central for a large part of the Victoria population.
Philosophical
Archaeology at Dirtgazing – religious works, food storage containers and faunal remains
From time to time, emails will show up from guest bloggers giving me images to include here on Dirtgazing. Here’s an interesting pair of images, with titles as provided by the guest bloggers.
First, from Ehpem is “Why Change is Difficult”:
And next, from Ashley Lily Scarlett, who blogs at Syncopated Eyeball and Strata of the Self, is “An Integral Part of Life”:
What is It?
Anyone care to guess what this is? It was a very dull almost monotone shot, so I processed some colour into it.
EDIT: clues are piling up in the comments section.
Dull as Dishwater II
Another shot from the kitchen sink (this is after all a blog with a bit of everything). I previously posted another couple of shots, taken at the same time, of this bowl of bubbles.
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